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They named the new spider discovery Idioctis marevallum.

The BBC site is starting to tick me off

No google, I did not ...

I'm responding quite late, but this spider won't jump. This ain't a jumping spider.

edit 1: My best guess would be Singa hamata, an orb-weaver.

edit 2: or maybe Theridiidae? Now I'm not sure. But It definitely won't jump.

edit 3: after some consulting it's back to orb-weaver. Maybe Hypsosinga sp. instead of my initial guess. The picture quality is limiting.

People don't understand that while they are invasive, they are non-competitive with native spiders (so I'm told anyway), and there are lots of them. They also make really string and super sticky webs, which are annoying.

So beautiful. And has all her legs.

Why would someone want to cull them? Is that a thing people do there?

Hi vis jacket bro

I am just north of what most call the metro area, and they are everywhere here. Literally hundreds around me. Trying to cull them would be impossible.

thanks for the correction

Wow, looks very similar to huntsman spiders in Australia

That’s really cool! As far as I know, black widows generally won’t fuck with you as long as you don’t fuck with it, so to speak haha. They wanna be left alone in their dark corners doing their thing.

That would be fascinating to see in person!

Today I learned! Thanks for the info :)

Story time.

My girlfriend, while I was dating her, had the stereotypical Basement Hang-out that we'd all collect in, load a cord of wood into the 'fisher' stove, get it blazing so it was going vloo-vloo-vloo on the vents (pumping). and watch whatever we got from Blockbuster.

Years later, we're moving her stuff around, someone notices a stain from where we moved the futony couch and looked closer.

Nope. The sheer mass of spider carcasses all in a line looked like some kind of skidmark on the carpet. But it was spider carcasses, their limbs all a-jumble but layered over one another. Look carefully around the edge like there's a jump-scare coming, and I can see her all tucked up in a nook on the underside of the futon, scarlet hourglass marking and everything. We'd been hanging around this black widow for weeks, probably, long enough for her to absolutely decimate the Eratigena population down there.

There's domesticus and giganticus, but the agrestis isn't "aggressive": it means "field", like from the same word as Agriculture. It's also invasive outside of East Asia.

So keep the little one, keep the giant one, cull the midsized.

Aggressive?! These little guys are so timid. Must have been named by some spider-phobe.

It would just come back inside, anyway.

Almost looks metallic

I just rehomed his cousin 20m ago.

This makes me so happy!

These bros in particular do best inside of homes! They tend to stick to basements and such, they wanna eat all the pests and stay out of our way. Their other name is the "Aggressive House Spider" though it's a little outdated as they aren't very aggressive at all. They do get BIG though and that freaks a lot of people out.

Do they not live well outside?

Wow, today I learned!

My house often has hobo spiders downstairs and I had always heard the unsupported folk wisdom that they are as dangerous as brown recluses. All the other spiders in my area are harmless, so they were the only one I was afraid of.

Now I know these ones are chill too

Thanks for posting this - what a relief!

Me too, spider kisses! You get used to it.